PULPED FICTION Oct 13, 2008
Thursday's absurd announcement that the Nobel Prize in Literature - previously won by Winston Churchill, John Steinbeck and Hermann Hesse - had gone to someone named "Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio" amounted to stabbing the corpse. M. Le Clzio's annual sales may well rocket into three figures, but the Nobel has long since abandoned its mission to do what the Oscars continue to do - reward artists who must first meet some basic standard of communicating with a broad audience. (New York Post -- Opinions)
5 Questions: Whistlestop Bookshop owner Jeff Wood remembers 20 years of selling books in Carlisle Sep 8, 2008
Pulls out records from a back room] The first one we sold in Carlisle was Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse. Hes one of my favorite authors, and we still have Beneath the Wheel on our shelves, even after 20 years of selling that copy. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Jon Savage on Ian Curtis's reading May 10, 2008
Deborah remembers him reading "Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hermann Hesse and JG Ballard. Photomontages of the Nazi Period was a book of anti-Nazi posters by John Heartfield, which documented graphically the spread of Hitler's ideals. Crash by JG Ballard combined sex with the suffering of car accident victims." Another favourite was Ballard's 1975 High-Rise ... Though it refers to Ballard's novella, the mood of the song is much more like Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Next Stop | Prato, Italy: In Tuscany, the revealing of a forbidden love Mar 7, 2008
I was directed to Biscottificio Antonio Mattei (Via Ricasoli, 20; 39-0574-25756), where the first biscotti di Prato on record were baked in 1848 and praised by the writer Hermann Hesse during a visit in 1901. For 7 euros a bag ($10. (International Herald Tribune)
Read on... Dec 15, 2007
Three books that mean a lot to me:"A Course in Miracles," "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach, "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse. What book would you like to see brought to the big screen and what book do you hope never gets adapted. (Variety)
11 THINGS: Comments on commenting Aug 17, 2007
Hate: "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Hermann Hesse. Comment: "Hell is other people." - Sartre. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Musicians provide literary cover versions Aug 3, 2007
Siddhartha Khosla, from Goldspot, has designed a collage for Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. "I chose this book because Steppenwolf is such a great band. I mean, Born to be Wild is such a great song. In all seriousness, I like how Hermann Hesse defines a hero. Several of Hesse's novels depict the protagonist's journey into their inner self and these 'heroes' often spend their existence trying to save themselves. I think that's cool.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
